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ducts. This gives him an advantage over those farther 

 north, where the climate restricts them to a very limited 

 list of productions. We have all of the products of the 

 north wheat, rye, barley, oats, corn, sorghum, and the 

 grasses ; besides, still more valuable and less expensive pro- 

 ducts, such as sweet potatoes, ground peas, goobers, field 

 peas and chufas. 



Any animal is more healthy when fed on a variety of 

 food, than when obliged to be confined to a single article, 

 however nutritious that article may be. 



^~' As corn is the principal article of food for hogs in the 

 v Northern and Middle States, its nutritive, value and yield 

 per acre will be compared with those of our peculiar hog 

 crops. 



A writer in the Florida Agriculturalist furnishes this com- 

 parison in a compact form, suitable for the work in hand, 

 and with facts very well adapted to Georgia, except that 

 he has put the yield per acre in peanuts too low, unless he 

 supposes them planted between the rows of corn. If 

 planted to themselves they will readily produce fifty bushels 

 per acre. 



This writer says : "To fatten animals readily, the food 

 must contain either sugar, starch or oil oily substances 

 ranking highest in value, sugary substances next, and those 

 containing starch, lowest. * 



" Most of our food products have been analyzed, and I 

 collate the analysis from various authors Youmans, C. T. 

 Jackson, and others : 



T-I r M 



''The per centage of oil in 



Corn is 9.0 per cent. 



Sweet potatoes 1.1 





Peaiiuts 16.0 per cent, 



Chufas 16.65 



Peas 1.9 " 



" That of sugar is in 



Corn 1.1 per cent. 



Sweet potatoes 5.5 " 



Peas 1.0 ," 



f ' That of starch is in 



Peanuts. 1. per cent, 



Chufas 12.75 



